Wolfgang Maehr

Quite a few people asked about the meditation experience and here I should give a bit more detailled description on that and then raise a few questions. — read more ›

Long long time ago, I can still remember, music used to make me smile. It still does. So do many other things, such as the phone call that I just finished. Or people with their behaviour and quirks, or animals or the weather or things. — read more ›

After the first 10 days I think I owe everybody a short recap of how things go and what’s happening here in Chandigarh, India. I shall start with pointing out that the views in my postings are my own and private ones and may or may not be shared by any of my affiliations (i.e. Opera). So, complaints to me please. — read more ›

Sorry for neglecting you all for such a long time, but you know, many things to do, write, prepare and so on and work load was high enough to make me not want to spend my spare time in front of the computer. Even if I had quite some things to write about. — read more ›

It’s been ages that I had been virtually cut off all contact over the internet. Busy days that left me with little time (and sometimes energy) to connect online and write mails. — read more ›

Again, it has been ages that I wrote here. Mortly because I was really busy at work during the wekes and also on the weekends. The last two weekends were filled with playoing Ultimate Frisbee first in Stockholm – a serious European Championship qualification tournament – and now in Grenoble – a fun and nicely-spirited proper Ultimate tournament. Stockholm was very high intensity and high level sports while sportsmanship sometimes unfortunately sometimes suffered because of that. Grenoble was my first turnament uoutside of Scandinavia and is supposed to be one of the best-spirited tournaments and it really was. Amazing atmosphere with many many nice people that did not mind too much the bad weather and enjoyed the games. — read more ›

Hi, so not too much happened here the last weeks, so it’s time for a brief update. — read more ›

This is one of the essential parts from the book on J.Krishnamurti’s thoughts I have been reading for a looong time now. The book is called Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti and is a very heavy but highly interesting read that I will revisit later in my life. — read more ›

A great piece by John Thackara on North-to-South design work. This might be more of a reminder to myself, but I hope that you also enjoy reading it. — read more ›

So I finally found a term for my condition: Global Nomadic Expatriate. I had been thinking of my nomadic life-style for a while now. Recent activities like social networks, travelling and meeting new people, the Uefa EURO 2008 in Austria/Switzerland and other things made more people than ever refer to me as “the Austrian”, asking me wether I’d be cheering for Germany, when I will go back to Austria and so on. Usually I would reply that “I don’t know when I will go back. Hopefully I don’t have to.”, “I don’t feel like an Austrian, maybe like a European, but actually more just like a human.” and “My home is where my shoes are.” along the lines of “Ubi bene, ibi patria.” — read more ›